Violence against women and girls affects all females and crosses cultural and economic boundaries. We have begun campaigns, education programs, skills building and economic empowerment programming, community mobilization, and participatory group education efforts to stop this harmful practice. Such interventions aim to change attitudes and norms that support violence against women and girls, thereby empowering women and girls economically and socially, as well as promoting nonviolent, gender-equitable behavio
Everywhere it is practiced, FGM is an expression of entrenched gender inequality. Girls subjected to FGM are subjected to a systematic form of violence. Survivors often require life-saving care and urgent treatment
FGM persists for various reasons, including cultural and economic factors that make it difficult for girls, women and communities to abandon the practice. But it cannot forever withstand the voices of survivors mobilizing to change beliefs. The aim of Lioness Maasai Organisation is to accelerate the inevitable demise of this harmful practice.
We as Lioness maasai organisation some of our members having gone through Female genital mutilation/cutting we have resolvedly said no to fgm since is a form of violence against women and girls. It includes all procedures that involve the partial or total removal of external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs. It is estimated out of 10 women in a maasai community 7 have suffered the effects of this practice and many young girls and women are at risk each year. Female genital mutilation/cutting violates several human rights outlined under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Human rights-based approaches to eradication include, but are not limited to, the enforcement of laws, education programs focused on empowerment, and campaigns to recruit change agents from within communities.
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